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Plant ID help, please.
GrassyKnoll
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I have these 6 plants that have appeared in my garden. I like them all and I'd like to keep them, but I don't know what they are. Any ideas? Pic 1 is the one with the white flowers.
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2, birch or alder?
3 viburnum tinus
4 viola?
5 dock
6 hazel
In photo 1, I meant that it was the plant with the white flower that I wanted IDing - the spiraea. Why do you say 'lose them'? I like the hottuynia and I have a couple of them in and around my pond. They have beautiful white flowers.
Birch makes sense as there are 2-3 silver birch outside my garden.
The viburnum, I'm pleased about. I bought one of those and it died, but it was nowhere near where I found this.
I don't think that is a viola. It certainly hasn't flowered and it's a big mass of a plant rather than lots of little ones, like viola.
The dock can go - I have lots of them all over.
The hazel is good. Don't think I have any of them near the garden, but I'm about to put in a small hedge/ windbreak so I can use this as part of it.
Thank you.
I don't remember seeing it until spring this year. I had stupidly brought in some bishops weed (see previous post) and had to dig a whole area of the garden up, hence this is in a pot. It may have been a flower that I bought - I don't remember - but could easily have just 'appeared'.
Picture 1, yes I think the white flowered plant is a spiraea. I like these and have a couple, they do get quite large, but I just prune them hard each spring and they behave fairly well. I also like the houttuynia, it has several different 'seasons', but I found this to be a real thug, so in the end it had to go!
Picture 4 looks to me like a wild viola, which I do not think flowers, each plant just grows bigger, but easy to pull out.
Picture 5 looks similar to what I have in my garden and I have been told it is wild strawberry. Don't know if that is right, but it is very very invasive and sends our long creepers. Dig out masses every year, but it still comes back. On the positive side it has small strawberry like fruits which the birds seem to enjoy.
Not sure how helpful any of this is.
4. Wild Viola do have flowers. See pics below 2 and 3......Viola riviniana..common dog violet.
5. Wild strawberry leaves are a very different shape...leaves are in 3's..see pics 4 and 5.below........ Fragraria vesca.....wild strawberry
I agree with others this is a dock.......Rumex obtusifolius...broadleaf dock..see first pic
1. Houttuynia.....is an pretty but invasive thug.
By pruning Spiraea hard at the wrong time will mean no flowers next year.
The Houttuynia is right next to my pond. I bought this, originally as a pond plant and I have one planted in the pond that grows really well and has bright scarlet leaves. It dies down completely in the winter and comes back looking stunning each year. I really like it.
The one in the picture, and another just out of shot have just appeared and both are different again in leaf colour. 3 variations in 3 plants.